Protected: A Conversation with Nathan Xavier Osorio
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Nathan Xavier Osorio reads his poem “How to Cook a Wolf” from Shō No. 4 (Winter 2024). Nathan Xavier Osorio’s debut collection of poetry, Querida, was selected by Shara McCallum as the winner of the 2024 Agnes Lynch Starrett Poetry Prize and is forthcoming from the University of Pittsburgh Press. He is the author of The Last …
Lana Matthews Sain reads her poem “We Go to the Cemetery to Buy a Burial Plot” from Shō No. 4 (Winter 2024). Lana Matthews Sain is a poet and business analyst in Sewanee, TN, where she works and explores poetry, nature, and spirituality as paths to original Self. She is a mother, an ordained Zen …
Eben E. B. Bein reads their poem “Namesake” from Shō No. 4 (Winter 2024). Eben E. B. Bein (they/he) is a biology-teacher-turned-climate-justice-educator at the nonprofit Our Climate. They were a 2022 Fellow for the Writing By Writers workshop and winner of the 2022 Writers Rising Up “Winter Variations” poetry contest. Their poems can be found in the likes of Nimrod Journal, New Ohio …
Richard Vargas reads his poem “morning coffee at Café Crema” from Shō No. 4 (Winter 2024). Richard Vargas earned his B.A. at Cal State University, Long Beach, where he studied under Gerald Locklin and Richard Lee. He edited/published five issues of The Tequila Review, 1978-1980, and twelve issues of The Mas Tequila Review from 2010-2015. …
Nazifa Islam reads her poem, “Day by Day” from Shō No. 4, Winter 2024. Nazifa’s found poem, “Day by Day,” was written using paragraphs from The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath. Read about Nazifa’s process here. Nazifa Islam is the author of the poetry collections Searching for a Pulse (Whitepoint Press) and Forlorn Light: Virginia Woolf Found Poems (Shearsman Books). …
Quinton Okoro reads their poem, “katabases” from Shō No. 4, Winter 2024. Quinton Okoro is a Black, nonbinary poet from Nigeria, with a BA in Creative Writing from UNC-Chapel Hill. They are a 2024 Djanikian Scholar and the winner of a University & College Poetry Prize from the Academy of American Poets, among other awards. …
The following poems were published in Shō and were subsequently featured in Verse Daily. Thank you to J.P. Dancing Bear for giving them attention! From Shō No. 4 (Winter 2024) – Faith Gómez Clark: “Caretaker” – Sage Ravenwood: “Deer Woman” – Jane Zwart: “How to Eat Like a King” – Nathan Xavier Osorio: “How to …